Cerebral palsy is a general term for a group of neurological ... Pharmacological interventions to manage spasticity, seizures, or pain. In some cases, surgery, including options such as Botox ...

Cerebral palsy is most often characterized by an excess or absence of muscle tone or spasticity, along with a distinct lack of muscle coordination. This is why air horns are my worst enemy and ...

Only recently has the secondary condition of pain been researched in adults with cerebral palsy. Results suggest ... described children with CP or spasticity as the largest group of patients ...

Spasticity is a symptom of conditions, like multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, stroke, and traumatic injury to the brain or spinal cord. It can look like a tightly folded arm with a flexed wrist ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a diagnostic label representing a wide range of nonprogressive motor impairments that are identified at birth or in early childhood. A more specific definition identifies CP as ...

A MUM-OF-TWO revealed she was told her son was ‘a lazy boy’ when in fact he had cerebral palsy.  Kirsty Diaso had to fight ...

I have spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy with dystonia, meaning I mobilise using a powered chair, and I use a surgically implanted baclofen pump that delivers medication to help relieve the ...

"Previous drugs for spasticity were always different according ... He said children with cerebral palsy sometimes had to undergo radical surgery to their tendons, muscles and bones.